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Title: My bicycle, side view in front of box bush, (Miss Annes)
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' bicycle with a large front wheel posed in front of a leafy bush in a garden., Time: 2:00, Light: Dark day, no sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: June 9, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1138]

Title: [Copy of Hinkle's picture of Deshler-Morris House, 4782 Main Street. To send with Perot Reunion invitations]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Deshler-Morris House (later 5442 Germantown Avenue), a two-story stone house seen from across a brick road. The house has shuttered windows and ivy climbing the walls. A boy rides a bicycle in front of the wooden fence that extends from the left side of the building. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009., Title supplied by cataloger., David Hinkle (1836-1916) was a popular studio photographer in Germantown around the 1860s., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.10.3]

Title: Copy of Hinkle's picture of our [Deshler-Morris] house 4782 Main St. To send with Perot Reunion invitations
Description: Glass negative showing a mounted photo of the Deshler-Morris House, a two-story house with shuttered windows and two chimneys at 5442 Germantown Avenue. The house is surrounded by trees and a boy rides a bicycle on the sidewalk. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009., David Hinkle (1836-1916) was a popular studio photographer in Germantown around the 1860s., Time: 3:20, Light: Fair sun, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: January 10, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1388]

Title: Don on back porch at Olney with H[annah] P[erot] M[orris]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' cousin Hannah Perot Morris and Don, a speckle-coated dog, sitting on the porch at the residence of her father Samuel Morris. A neat hedge lines the path leading to the house and vines climb up the pillars of the porch. A bicycle leans against the wall in the background behind a rocking horse. Morris wears a long, high-necked dress and a hat., Photographer remarks: Overtimed., Time: 12:45, Light: Good sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 26, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1270]

Title: [Copy of Hinkle's picture of Deshler-Morris House, 4782 Main Street. To send with Perot Reunion invitations]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Deshler-Morris House (later 5442 Germantown Avenue), a two-story stone house, seen from across a brick road. The house has shuttered windows and ivy climbing the walls. A boy rides a bicycle in front of the wooden fence that extends from the left side of the building. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009., Title supplied by cataloger., David Hinkle (1836-1916) was a popular studio photographer in Germantown around the 1860s., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.10.1]

Title: Hall doorway, 4782 Main Street [Deshler-Morris House, Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing a view looking through an open door from inside the Deshler-Morris House at 4782 Main Street, later 5442 Germantown Avenue. There is a wooden porch outside the door and a garden extends into the background. A bicycle stands on the right and leafy shrubs border the garden on the left. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009., Photographer remarks: Small but clear and good, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: June 19, 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.64.4]

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